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{No ModeL) No, 312,217. Patented Feb. 10,1885,

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nrnar ANDREV OVEREND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO OALVERT B. COTTRELL, OF W'ESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND.

RECEIVING-TABLE FOR PRINTING-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,217, dated Pebruary'lO, 1885.

Application tiled September 27, 1883. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, ANDREW OVEREND, of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Receiving-Tables for Printing-Presses, of which the following` is a specification.

In the operation ofprinting-presses the sheets are allowed to accumulate on the receivingtable and are removed from time to time by hand. As the paper is some of it damp, it is diicult to handle it without crumpling and folding many of the sheets and without olisetting the ink and smutting the sheets.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the removal or transferring of the sheets from the receiving-table, and to enable it to be accomplished without handling` the sheets.

To this end my invention consists inthe combination, with a printing-press, ofa receivingtable provided with pivots or trunnions,brack ets or frames comprising bearings for said pivots or trunnions, and means, substantially such as hereinafter described, for raising` and lowering said brackets or frames and table for the delivery of printed sheets.

The invention also consists in. the mechanism for supporting the receivingtable, which is particularly hereinafter described, the said mechanism being also applicable to receivingtables which are not invertible, in order to adjust them vertically and support them in different vertical positions.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side view of a portion of a press to which my invertible receiving-table is applied and a truck on which sheets are to be deposited. Fig. 2 is an end view of the press and table, portions being broken away to reduce the width of the figure; and Fig. 3 is aplan of the receiving-table detached from other parts.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the receiving-table, which is provided at the sides with pivots or trunnions a, and at the sidesof the table are brackets or frames B, wherein are the bearings for said pivots or trunnions a.

Projecting inward from the inner sides of the brackets or frames B are tianges or proj ections b, (shown in Fig. 2,) and inasmuch as the table is pivoted or fulcrumed near its front end it will rest on said ilanges solidly, and will have no tendency to cant accidentally. ',Ihe lsheets C are piled upon the table A by the iiy D, or by grippers, or any other system of delivery apparatus which is to be supported independently of and be entirely disconnected from the said table. Then it is desired to remove the pile of sheets from said table, the straps e are buckled or otherwise secured over it. A truck, E, is then run up to the end of the pivoted table, and the latter is then turned over on its pivots a or inverted, and thereby deposits its whole pile of sheets smoothly on the truck. The straps c are then undone or released and the table swung back into its horizontal and normal position.

In the present example of my invent-ion I have shown the brackets or frames B as each supported by a pair of parallel rods or radiusbars, G G', pivoted at their inner ends to the side frames, F, ofthe press, and pivoted at their outer ends to the brackets or frames B. The inner ends of the lower bars, G, of the two pairs are xed to a rock-shaft, G2, while the inner ends of the upper barsG, of the two pairs are or may be tiXed to a rock-shaft, G3.

From the above description it will be clear that if the bars G G are swung upward or downward the table A will be raised or lowered while retaining its horizont-al position.

As a means of raising and lowering the table A and holding it in any position to which it may be adjusted, I have representeda lever or arm, H, fixed to the rock-shaft G2 and eX- tending upward therefrom. At the upper end the lever or arm H has connected with it a screw, I, which works in a nut, d, fixed to the side frame, F, and which may be turned by a hand-wheel,.I. By turning the screw I in one direction or the other the bars G G may be raised or lowered so as'to bring the table to the desired position. Other means might be employed for thus raising and lowering the table.

The parallel bars G G may be used for supporting and raising and lowering a receivingtable attached rigidly to the frames B and incapable of being inverted. By the vertical adjustment of the table it is easily arranged IOO at the proper height to deliver` smoothly upon the truck piles of sheets varying in height or thickness.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a printing-press, of a receiving-table provided with pivots or trunnions, brackets or frames comprising bearings for said pivots or trunnions, and means, substantially such as described, for raising and lowering said brackets or frames, and table for the delivery of printed sheets, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a printing-press, of a receiving-table, the frames B, supporting R. D. BEsT, W. J. MELLON. 

